NAETISL
National Association of Educational Translators and Interpreters of Spoken Languages
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Access & Inclusion Newsletter |
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Speech-Language Impairments and Learning Disabilities: Terms to Know
Join us for the last session of our 2021 Learning Through Practice Series! Did you know that multilingual children are more likely to be served in special education under the specific learning disabilities and speech/language impairments eligibility categories? Ana Soler will share practical tools for interpreters and translators to expand their vocabulary in these specific areas of eligibility, along with resources for further learning. Ana will also share some of her doctoral research stemming from conversations with School Psychologists and Speech/Language Pathologists about their expectations of spoken language interpreters.40% off for NAETISL Members!
Join us after Ana's presentation for a virtual holiday toast to celebrate your personal and professional accomplishments in 2021, and welcome 2022 as a stronger network of interpreters, translators, multilingual families, and schools.
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NAETISL Members Hard at Work |
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What to Expect from an Interpreter? Now in Marshallese, Hindi and Karen
Our Emergent Bilingual Family Advisory Board has guided the development and creation of these short videos to foster the self-advocacy skills of our multilingual families.
These videos complement the multilingual fact sheets that our committee created with the skills that families should expect from interpreters and translators in education. We thank all of the NAETISL members who are making a difference by empowering our multilingual families.
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Professional Development Committee
Our Professional Development Committee has worked tirelessly to secure guest speakers for our 2022 Learning Through Practice Series and to plan additional exciting events for our members. Our network and connections are stronger thanks to the NAETISL members who invest their time as volunteers in this committee. More and more school districts across the nation are recognizing the value of continuing education and more interpreters and translators have found a supportive home and safe learning environment. Thank you, Professional Development Committee, for your time and efforts! You are making a difference.
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Translation in Education Video Series
Our Translation in Education video series is now available in our YouTube Channel, thanks to our Communications Committee. These short videos provide tips on glossary development and fundamental steps for translators to evaluate, edit and format documents specific to K-12 settings. Additional resources related to translation will be made available to NAETISL members in 2022.
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What's in Store for NAETISL in 2022? |
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2022 Learning Through
Practice Series
Are you interested in ways to collaborate effectively with school representatives during special education meetings? Would you like to learn consecutive interpreting intervention techniques with a nationally-renowned trainer? How about getting some tips on workflow of school interpretation and translation requests? Or perhaps you want to learn about interpreting for unaccompanied minors in schools? If so, stay tuned as we announce our 2022 distinguished speakers. Join us for our first session featuring Leslie Padilla-Williams on January 14, 2022.
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Supporting the Multilingual Superpowers of Our Youth
Save the Date
NAETISL is collaborating with colleges and universities across the nation to offer a free Town Hall for bilingual high school and university students interested in careers as interpreters and translators.
Our participants will hear from professionals working as literary translators, sign language, legal, medical and educational interpreters. Stay tuned for additional details and registration information.
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National Standards of Practice for Educational Translators
and Interpreters of Spoken Languages
After conducting 14 focus groups with school administrators and interpreters/translators working in early childhood and K-12 settings, we developed a rubric to validate our Standards of Practice. Key stakeholders used the rubric to evaluate each of our proposed standards to ensure true representation of the work and expectations of interpreters and translators in education. NAETISL and its committees also engaged stakeholders, including school representatives, interpreters, translators and multilingual families in surveys and focus groups to provide feedback on the standards for educational interpreters and translators. A report with our final and nationally-vetted Standards of Practice will be published in 2022 to complement our National Code of Ethics, moving us one step closer to creating a national certification for interpreters and translators in education. We thank all the NAETISL members, school districts, interpreters, translators, language access advocates and Subject Matter Experts who have participated in this effort!
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Not a NAETISL Member yet? Ready to Make a Difference? |
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The Multilingual Special Education Family Toolkit
Thank you to our wonderful colleagues and members from Portland Public Schools (PPS) for creating this incredible resource:
The Multilingual Special Education Family Toolkit is a set of cards that show the Special Education process, eligibility categories, and placement/services options in PPS. These procedures and concepts are often complex and create barriers for families that prevent their meaningful participation which is critical to positive outcomes for their students. The toolkit currently consists of 4 main components:
- A Special Education overview,
- A Roadmap for the evaluation/IEP process,
- Eligibility cards that describe all of the Disability Categories in PPS
- A Placement/Services card.
The cards represent these important ideas in a visual way using universal graphics along with the implementation of language access principles, including: family-friendly terms, plain language and translations. The cards are available in the six supported languages at PPS: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, and Somali.
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Happy Holidays From Our NAETISL Family to Yours!
We wish you a wonderful holiday season and a healthy and happy New Year! Thank you to all the school districts, interpreters, translators and multilingual families supporting our efforts to strengthen family engagement, language access and language justice in early childhood and K-12 settings.
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